November is finally here and to celebrate we will have many new reviews for you. We’ve also just heard word from a very cool looking company called CyberpowerPC about their new range of Xtreme PC’s! You can see the press release below.

BALDWIN PARK, CA (November 14, 2011) – CyberpowerPC, www.cyberpowerpc.com, a leading manufacturer of custom gaming desktop PCs, gaming notebooks, and performance workstations, today announced a new series of enthusiast gaming PCs based on Intel’s 2nd Generation Core i7-3000 Series CPUs (code named Sandy Bridge-E) and X79 chipset motherboards.

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Today we are taking a look at  a brand new product from Visiontek, the videocard manufacturer has turned their heads on to the memory market. We recieved a sample of their performance ram named “Visiontek Ultimate Performance Pc3-12800 CL9 1600EX”. So how can this brand new ram from Visiontek perform? Lets not waste any time and figure out what kind of performance that we can expect!

http://rbmods.com/visiontek-8gb-pc3-12800-cl9-1600-ex-ddr3/

The headsets we get with phones and mp3-players are often cheap, and are not durable and do not yield good audio. Arctic is the latest company that is aiming to bring a better audio quality experience with their E461-BM in-ear headphones

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Are you desperate for a GPU upgrade? Still languishing with a 2XXX series ATI card? perhaps an 8 series nVidia? Well, today HIS and XSR are here to help. While we don’t have anything monumentally powerful up for grabs we do have 5 GPUs to give away. That’s right, 5 opportunities to win a monstrous, passively cooled HIS 5550 1GB edition. Yea man. Now we’re playing with power.

http://xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/other-products/his-desperate-upgrade-gpu-competition/

Performance is a great factor when deciding what to buy, but what about looks? Should a rig be esthetically pleasing, or is it just a waste of money? For some, including me, casemodding is a hobby and can give a lot of pleasure. Improving the looks of your system can make the difference whether it’s good for the living room, to show off on LAN-parties, or just for your own satisfaction.

Today we’ll take a look at some casemodding accessories supplied by and available at AquaTuning

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The Carbide 500R is the high-performance version of the 400R with additional cooling and an edgier design. Will these be enough to justify the higher price tag and will it leave us as impressed as with the more affordable brethren?

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Mouse mats generally come in one of two flavours: Soft and cuddly, and hard and strong. The Slamepad is definitely in the latter category, as it’s made of German-crafted aluminium. The Slamepad (literal English translation… slam-pad) comes from German outfit ModMyMachine, who are newcomers to the mouse surface scene.

Let’s see how the Slamepad fares in real world tests… the Germans are a hardcore mousing people, so I expect only the best from MMM. Let’s get into it!

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Today we will take a look at the newest power supply from Enermax called ENM750AWT. ENM750AWT belongs to NAXN series which is a 80+ bronze efficiency line of power supplies. Let’s take a look how well it performs in our tests.

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Today I will be reviewing the Gelid GX-7. Gelid are another name on a list of companies who seemily have come out of no-where, but quickly raised to the top. Gelid have been around for nearly 4 years, and unlike many new companies in this industry, haven’t attempted to enter too many markets at once, rather focusing purely on HSF’s for CPU’s & GPU’s, Fans and Thermal Interface Material (TIM).

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It features both internal and external improvements. Externally Sound ID went with a carbon fiber work to set it apart from earlier editions that were various styles of black. The biggest addition to this Bluetooth headset is the voice menu technology, which allows a user to interact with their phone in new and unique ways. Services such as Bing411, Google Voice and others can be activated using the voice menu. The active connect feature allows users to connect to Bluetooth A2 DP media devices to the headset.

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Deepcool’s IceEdge 400XT heatsink is a mid-size tower cooler that stands a modest 127mm high and weighs 585 grams. At its heart are four, 6mm diameter copper heatpipes and a 92x100mm stack of dark nickel plated aluminum fins. As with DeepCool’s other heatsinks, the IceEdge 400XT ships with a novel rubber clad 92mm PWM fan. Every bit of the fan frame that makes contact with the heatsink is covered in a rubbery material so motor vibrations are greatly diminished. The 92mm DeepCool brand fan spins at 2200-900RPM and moves ~40CFM air according to the maker.

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As I sit here contemplating to start this based off of a revision of a previous design angle, or if I take the approach of allowing this chassis to stand on its own merits, I find that both angles are very applicable to what we are going to be having a look at. As the title mentions, essentially we are at what the evolution of what the P180 has become some years later. The external design has definitely been revisited in this new release, but there have been a multitude of changes made internally. Looking at cases that came later in the Performance One series from Antec, the P183 and P193 and their revisions, they were all based off a compartmentalized interior design. So while Antec tried to make it have aesthetic cues that hark back to the classic design that many of you reading this have used, there has been much thought and effort into maximizing what you can get into this chassis, making it easy to do, and deliver limited noise in operation.

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Today we’ll be taking a look at the Sirus True 5.1 surround sound gaming headset from CM Storm, the gaming peripheral arm of Cooler Master. The Sirus is the first headset produced by CM Storm and given the quality of the previous products we have seen from them has a lot to live up to.

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It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything from Xclio but they’ve just introduced a few new cases and they’ve sent me over two of them for review. Today we’ll start off with the Touch 320 Mid Tower Chassis that features six fans pre-installed; those fans are controlled by a touch panel fan controller located on the front of the case, that’s where the name ‘Touch’ comes from of course. Let’s just get into it…

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Corsair recently released a new watercooler on the market that according to Corsair should outperform the Antec Kuhler 920. The Kuhler performed quite well in our tests so we have high hopes for this H100 liquid cooler. The Question is; how well will it perform and at what noise levels does it have? The Antec performed good at very low noise levels so lets get on with the review and see if the H100 can compete.

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